Most people know about Dr. Pepper soda, Gooey Butter Cake, and Ice Cream Cones being introduced in St. Louis. However, we have a lot of other things from our town you've might not know about.

Brain Sandwiches (yep, you read that right. I don't think it needs more description)Toasted Ravioli. If you ever eat toasted ravioli with red sauce, you'll never eat regular ravioli again.Slingers. This one requires some explaining.

The Slinger is a Midwestern diner specialty typically consisting of two eggs, hash browns, and a hamburger patty (or any other meat) all covered in chili (with or without beans) and generously topped with cheese (cheddar or American) and onions. The eggs can be any style. The Slinger is considered to be a St. Louis late-night culinary original. It is described as "a hometown culinary invention that might account for St. Louis' high rate of heart disease: a mishmash of meat, hash-fried potatoes, eggs, and chili, sided with your choice of ham, sausage, bacon, hamburger patties, or an entire flippin' T-bone steak. It's dirt cheap, damn good and a drunk's dream."

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SOURCE: WikipediaPork Steaks. This is often called pork butt but it's really muscle from the shoulder and as a result it's VERY tough and butchers around the country throw away this meat. There are many ways to make this meat very tender and that's local to St. Louis (although it's spreading).St. Louis Style Pizza. Another item that's spreading. The differences from other cities is that it's always thin crust and instead of using Mozzarella cheese, Provel cheese is used.St. Paul Sandwich.

The St. Paul sandwich is a type of sandwich found in Chinese American restaurants in St. Louis, Missouri. The sandwich consists of an egg foo young patty (made with bean sprouts and minced white onions) served with dill pickle slices, white onion, mayonnaise, lettuce, and tomato between two slices of white bread.

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SOURCE: WikipediaCrispy Snoots. You don't want to know. LOL (Basically you grill pig noses until crispy, then you dip it in BBQ sauce.Ted Drewe's Concretes. This is a frozen custard that always wins awards on various cooking shows. One can turn their cup upside down and eat the whole thing without it falling out. With that said, it's soft....nothing like ice cream.

The "Fat" Sandwiches - Nearly anything that you can deep fry, on a sandwich. Usually with other stuff thrown in for good measure.
Real Pizza - Nowhere else compares to this area; you guys just don't have the water for it.
Manhattan Clam Chowder - Screw Boston!
Saltwater taffy - Local to the jersey shore.
M & Ms - another jersey-originated "food".
Taylor ham - more local awesome.
Italian ices - we pwn the italian recipes hxc.
DINERS - You will never have as many diners as us.

Any possible combonation of beef and potatoe/corn you could possibly ever imagine.

My personal favorite~ Cabbage Rolls~ hamburger fried and broke down into little pieces. Throw in a couple cups of chopped cabbage. Wrap portions in bread dough making making them baseball size. Brush the whole 'ball' with melted butter. Bake til the cabbage is soft and the bread is golden brown.

hmmm, brain sandwiches....glad I brought my lunch from HOME today...a reheated hamburger much better then a brain sandwiches.....
I do love pork steaks though
Curt you forgot the heart-attack waiting to happen sandwich at one of the minor league ballparks by us....2 krispy creme glazed doughnuts with...wait for it........ hamburger with cheese between the 2 doughnuts :-X

I love watching the man v food shows on food channel to watch all the weird stuff he tries and on the local food from the various areas!

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